1950’S RED SCARE AND MCCARTHYISM

By:

Jahia Morris

Kennedy Mckiernan

Valerie Montufar

Aaron Garcia

Sergio Heredia

SOAPSTONE

Speaker: group 5

Occasion: Mrs. Hong assigned the power point to learn about the Crucible

Audience: The 11th grade students

Purpose: To teach students about the 1950’s Red Scare/ McCarthyism

Subject: The Red Scare and McCarthyism

Tone: Assertive, educational

WHAT IS THE RED SCARE

The term Red Scare was the promotion of fear of a potential rise of Communism

The first Red Scare (1919-1921) was about workers (socialist) revolution and political radicalism

The second Red Scare (1947-1957) was focused more on national and foreign communists influencing society, infiltrating the federal government, or both

WHO IS MCCARTHY?

Born on November 14 , 1908 in Appleton , Wisconsin

Attended Marquette University

Earned a law degree in 1935

Elected circuit judge of the tenth judicial circuit of Wisconsin in 1939

Enlisted into the marines during World War 2

Elected as a republican to the united states senate in 1946

Reelected in 1952 and served from January 3, 1947 until his death May 2, 1957

WHAT IS MCCARTHYISM

McCarthyism was a political practice of accusing people of tension of anti government activities.

It was named under the Era of Joe McCarthy

The term had its origins in the period in the U.S. known as the second Red Scare ,and lasted 1950 – 1956.

McCarthyism was a widespread social and cultural phenomenon that affected all levels of society.

CONNECTIONThe second Red Scare occurred after World War II and was popularly known as “McCarthyism”

Both the Crucible/ Salem and McCarthyism are connected because they allowed both communities to have hysteria be spread without proof of wrong doing

Both communities allowed bad things to happen to good, innocent people.

McCarthyism started because of the Red Scare

ANTICOMMUNIST/ COMMUNIST

By the 1930’s communism had become an attractive economic ideology in the U.S

The communist party in the U.S increased it membership with a peak of 75,000 members

Postwar anti-communist were rooted even more directly in the political culture of the 1930’s

Joseph McCarthy became the person most closely associated with the anti-communist crusade.

THE EFFECT ON PEOPLE

Lost jobsInnocent people were being prosecuted by their own countryKids at school were being out castedPeople were violating constitutional rightsDeportations of innocent peopleWomen’s suffrage associations were weakened

THE END

McCarthyism ended in the late 1950’s when McCarthy's fraud was revealedIdeals of McCarthyism started to loose support, and the public started to believe that the chase for the Red Scare was actually a red herring